Bug#372208: [pkg-wpa-devel] Bug#372208: missing patches from wpasupplicant

[Soeren Sonnenburg]

On Fri, 2006-07-14 at 21:09 +1000, Kel Modderman wrote:
> reopen 372208
> |retitle |372208 Orinoco and wpa_supplicant not working with WEP
> thanks
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have a bad feeling about the included patch and would like to drop it 
> for a few reasons:
> 
>    1. I currently experience problems with WEP and madwifi (using wext
>       ioctl's), and have had difficulty debugging

well does it help if you remove the patch ?

>    2. This patch has not been merged upstream, its been around long
>       enough for that (i suspect its not mergable)
>    3. We made little effort to discuss this patch with upstream or its
>       authour (Dan Williams), and that is mostly my fault

then please go ahead and do it...

>    4. Diverging from upstream like this is _never_ a good thing in the
>       long term

that is true

>    5. I don't want to spoil my debugging attempts with other developers
>       of madwifi (or wpa_supplicant) while this subtle hack is included

well but no one hinders you from building a local package w/o the patch.
> 
> The patch is still contained in the source package, but inactive via 
> debian/patches/00list.
> 
> Comments on how to best proceed welcome.

as w/o the patch wpasupplicant is rendered useless for orinoco users,
you should prove that patch is faulty. 

however I would suggest you to publicly ask on the lists why this patch
is not included (reasons...) and based on this decide to drop/keep
it/come up with a newer patch.

Soeren
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